Libertarianism and More Inclusive Liberalism

With the arrival of Ron Paul on America's political scene, libertarianism has gained a visible and effective proponent. To understand what is to be expected from it and what should be done in its presence, it first merits describing what libertarianism is. Libertarian Party...

Understanding Ayn Rand as a person

While Ayn Rand claimed that she was rational, she was in fact a very emotional person. This is found in much of the analysis of her life. More important is understanding what was driving her psychologically. And that is this: Being an empath for her father. Ayn Rand's father...

Rational understanding of human nature

There are people who believe human nature to be any number of things, ranging from economic self-interest to collective action for benefit of humanity to supporting life on earth. To have a rightful understanding...

Errors of Ayn Rand

In years 1997-2000, I read the works of Ayn Rand and developed a great respect for what I was reading. But having seen the effect of her political views, I was less than impressed with the outcome. I have since then taken a critical inventory of Ayn Rand's...

War Could Cost Over $2 Trillion -- Wouldn't it Have Been Cheaper Just to Buy ...

"Bush talks a lot about his big troop surge. But so far, the plan seems to be to smother sectarians in Iraq with money. After reports last week that we shipped 363 tons of $100 bills on pallets to Iraq, we learn...

Global Warming Denial Catches on at the Worst Possible Time

"There's a good new/bad news report coming out of the UK on global warming. We'll start with the bad news -- not addressing global warming will be really expensive. Economic disaster on the scale of both world wars and the great depression kind of expensive:"CTV...

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